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Unlearning Gun Violence: Success in the Hood
In response to the epidemic of inner-city violence in Chicago neighborhoods, Gary Slutkin found that it helps to look at the situation as one...
British Bus Drivers Learning About Dementia to Better Help Passengers
Thousands of bus drivers around Britain are being given special training so they can help passengers with dementia. It's part of an initiative by...
Free Online Courses From Stanford, Princeton, Duke, Transform Learning Worldwide
A new online education platform founded by Stanford Computer Science Professors is on a mission to change the world by educating millions of people...
Teachers Union Leads Effort to Turn Around Poverty and Learning in West Virginia Schools
The American Federation of Teachers, vilified by critics as an obstacle to school reform, is leading an unusual effort to turn around a floundering...
MIT Bringing Learning to Anyone With a Cell Phone
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has taken its revolutionary OpenCourseWare initiative, launched 10 years ago, to another level. Moving beyond the web, the new...
Incarcerated Teens Build Solar Boat, Learning Life Lessons
The math and social studies teacher at Camp David Gonzales, a juvenile probation camp in California, worked tirelessly with a group of incarcerated young...
Gates Gives $20 Million for School Learning With Games
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced Wednesday it would be investing $20 million to bring new national education standards into the classroom using...
To Improve Learning, German School Allows Chewing Gum
Few things rile a teacher more than seeing a pupil chewing gum in class, but a primary school in southern Germany is now actively...
From Job Skills To People Skills: Learning U.S. Ways
Fort Wayne, Ind., deals with multiple cultural challenges and obstacles every day as a primary relocation destination for refugees. The city houses the...
Teacher of the Year Honored for Letting Students Create With Individual Learning Styles
In the White House Rose Garden on Thursday, President Obama honored the 2010 National Teacher of the Year, Sarah Brown Wessling, from Johnston High...
Learning New Skills Through Volunteering Can Boost Brain Power
Five months before Allen Manly retired from his job in June as a high school guidance counselor, he underwent training that could go...
Video Games Support School Lessons and Learning
Once shunned as a brain-rotting activity, video games are now winning over many teachers of teenage students as a way to inspire kids to...
Ten Tips for Summer Learning
Schools may be empty during the summer, but learning can continue. California State Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O'Connell gives his top ten suggestions...
Drones Find Dozens of Landmines Littering Ukraine So They Can Be Defused
When drones appeared on the scene en masse, many people saw the potential immediately—for military purposes, for breathtaking photography, even wildlife conservation, but for...
Mountain Chickadees have Remarkable Memories–with Ability to Recall Locations of 10,000 Hidden Snacks
Lost your keys? Can’t remember where you parked the car? If only you had the memory of a mountain chickadee.
These half-ounce birds, with brains...
In World First, Scientists Share What Was Almost Certainly a Conversation with a Humpback Whale
In a world first, marine biologists were able to have a discourse with a humpback whale, pushing out the boundaries of cooperation and understanding...
Good News in History, April 11
Happy 64th Birthday to Jeremy Clarkson, the journalist and television personality who hosted the iconic motoring show Top Gear. Since hanging up his BBC...
Boy Finds Rare Gold Roman Bracelet in a Field Where it Was Lying for 2,000 Years
A 12-year-old boy picked up a treasure in the dirt that his mother thought was just strapping used for packaging, but it turned out...
Teaching Teens How to Understand Their Feelings is Key to Helping Them Grow and Mature
Parents who solely focus on ‘fixing behavior’ will leave their teenager feeling misunderstood, according to a new book, How Do You Hug a Cactus?,...
Bumblebees Share Knowledge Like Humans and Chimpanzees, Suggesting the Hive Mind Is More Personal
Bumblebees can teach others new behaviors too complex for them to learn alone, suggests a paper published in Nature that essentially posits humans and...